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Spoke Screening + PRIDE Preview

Here we were at The Spoke Club gallery where you see Anita and Mateo embrace above since they haven’t seen each other since Banff. It’s our first time being invited to do a screen & talk of Late Fragment at a private club. This invitation was extended by Russell Smith (below in pic with Anita Doron), novelist, journalist, & erudite renaissance man who had the chance to experience Late Fragment himself and wanted, I think, to engage The Spoke audience on a discussion about narrative, future films, and whether or not mainstream audiences will ever be ready for “difficult texts.” (A champion for said text was found in the audience!)

It was a lively evening filled with literate, generous and fun debate about the pros and cons of taking the French nouveau roman genre or attitudes to the screen, not to mention some talk about whether Ossington is the new Queen. The evening ended well with all of us drinking the complimentary pink PRIDE libations filled with blueberries and raspberries.

We also ran into some folks celebrating up on the deck. Here’s Damon D’Oliveira, Toronto producer with Mateo.

Too bad the weather didn’t cooperate (it was chilly on the deck!) but still we met new friends.

Conversation:

[...] participants, thanks to Marc Glassman, the inimitable force behind TINARS. Given that, as Russell Smith commented during one of our past screenings, Late Fragment may be seen as the distant cousin of the [...]

Community Justice Initiatives extended an invitation to the Late Fragment team to screen at the historical King Street Theatre in downtown Kitchener as part of National Restorative Justice Week 2008. To end a symposium for professionals in the Restorative Justice field, an art display, and an awards banquet, we screened Late Fragment to an inspired and inspiring audience.

After a successful year of festival screenings around the world, it seemed most appropriate to end our year with such an audience. After all, it was the same community workers and Restorative Justice advocates that inspired the story of the film in the first place. Anita Doron, Tina Santiago and Jeff Parazzo, introduced the film and welcomed audience members to join in a performative audience cut. Audience members were eager to participate and braved the hot seat.

The credits were welcomed with an enthusiastic applause. The biggest complement we could have ever received came from one audience member: “The film stayed true to the every day work that we do here. Thank you for making this film.”

Special thanks goes out to Judah Oudshoorn, Revive Service Coordinator, Mark
Yantzi, Executive Director, Community Justice Initiatives, Jennifer Davies,
Revive Program Coordinator and Sandra Reimer, Writer/Communication Strategist for their enthusiasm and support.

Thursday November 21, 2008 7:00pm

King Street Theatre Centre, 36 King St. W.
Kitchener, ON

Category: Screening with discussion to follow

Description:

Late Fragment will be presented in Kitchener, Ontario as part of the National Restorative Justice Week. A discussion will follow with producer Ana Serrano, writer/director Anita Doron and actor Jeff Parazzo.
Order tickets at http://www.kstc.ca/ or by calling (519) 571-0928. Everyone attending the Us Them WE Conference will receive 1 free ticket to Late Fragment .

Tuesday October 21, 2008 7:30pm

Category: Screening

Description:

Join actor Jeff Parazzo, producer Ana Serrano, and writer/director Mateo Guez at the Alliance Francaise de Manille for an intimate screening of Late Fragment. For more info, check out Alliance Francaise.